Thunder Mage

Thunder Mage An enemy Thunder Mage in Radiant Dawn. Mages who wield lightning-based magic. Their spells are especially potent against dragon laguz.

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) Thunder Skill(s) Shove (Radiant Dawn)

The Thunder Mage (Japanese: サンダーマージ Thunder Mage) is a basic magical class which was introduced in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, appearing only in it and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. The class is one of three element-specialized versions of the Mage class of other Fire Emblem series games, along with the Fire Mage and Wind Mage, and as its name suggests it specializes in thunder magic and is unable to wield any other magic type.

The Thunder Mage plays near identically to standard Mages as a purely offensive magical class, differing only in being restricted to thunder magic. Thunder Mages have high magical power and speed, allowing them to somewhat reliably follow-up attack enemies, and in particular making them notably adept at killing slow, heavily-armored Knights. However, Thunder Mages have low HP and defense, making them highly susceptible to being killed or severely damged in one shot by most physical units.

In Genealogy of the Holy War, Thunder Mages promote to the Mage Fighter class. In Radiant Dawn, Thunder Mages instead promote to the Thunder Sage class, which in turn promote to the Arch Sage class.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	26	0	7	9	6	0	1	5	5	--	B
Radiant Dawn	16	5/1	5/3	7/3	6/4	0	2/1	5	5	9/5	D

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	80	15	22	24	21	30	16	20	5	--	B
Radiant Dawn	30	10	20	20	20	30	10	20	20	99	A

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Tier	Movement type	Weakness	Experience	CRP	Gold	Vision	Weight mod.	Capacity	Size	Unit type
Genealogy of the Holy War	--	--	--	--	--	1,000	--	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn	--	--	--	--	--	--	3	+0	15	--	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	100%	10%	30%	30%	30%	0%	10%	30%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn	55/60%	15%	65%	45/50%	45/55%	20%	30/25%	45/65%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.

Class change

Genealogy of the Holy War

The class a unit changes into in Genealogy of the Holy War is determined by the unit and not the class; however, all units in the Thunder Mage class have the following class change option:

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Thunder Mage	Choosing the "Class change" option in a home castle after reaching level 20.	Mage Fighter

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class	Promotion method	Master class
Thunder Mage	Using a  Master Seal after reaching level 10, or reaching level 21.	Thunder Sage	Using a  Master Crown after reaching level 10, or reaching level 21.	Arch Sage

Playable Thunder Mages

Playable units
Name	Game
Tailtiu	Genealogy of the Holy War (First generation)
Linda	Genealogy of the Holy War (Second generation)
Ilyana	Radiant Dawn
Playable Thunder Mage units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy Thunder Mages

Enemy units
Name	Game
Liza	Genealogy of the Holy War (second generation)
Eriu	Genealogy of the Holy War (second generation)
Enemy Thunder Mage units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	Mages whose thunder magic is most effective against laguz. There are also fire and wind mages.	雷属性の魔法を得意とする者 繰り出す雷撃で竜に大ダメージを与える 他に炎魔道士・風魔道士がいる
Radiant Dawn (help)	Mages who wield lightning-based magic. Their spells are especially potent against dragon laguz.	雷属性の魔法を得意とする者 繰り出す雷撃で守備の高い敵や 竜に大きなダメージを与える

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Thunder Mage	A mage is a magician, often used in fantasy in the context of one who uses magic for combat.
Japanese	• サンダーマージ • 雷魔道士 (サンダーマージ	• Thunder Mage. This name is used in Genealogy of the Holy War. • Officially romanized as Thunder Mage. In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 雷魔道士), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. サンダーマージ) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll.
Spanish	Mago Trueno	Thunder Mage
French	Mage foudre	Thunder mage
German	Donnermagier	Thunder mage
Italian	Mago tuono	Thunder mage

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Concept art of Thunder Mages from Genealogy of the Holy War.

Portraits

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  The generic Thunder Mage portrait in Genealogy of the Holy War.

Screenshots

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  An enemy Thunder Mage in Radiant Dawn.
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  Ilyana as a Thunder Mage in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Mage
  • Fire Mage
  • Light Mage
  • Wind Mage

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.